The Penn's Grove record., 1887-02-12
NEWS OFTHE WEEK


Heavy floods are reported in tn
Ohio river and its tributaries. at /.
O'Clock on the morning of the 9Th, th,
river at Cincinnati had risen 10 IS fee
81 inches, and was still rising steadily
at the rate of an inch an hour. ThI
lower portions of Cincinnati, Louis
vile, Newport and C~ovingtOu wert
flooded, and many families were re
moving from their houses. Access Il
the Central Passenger Depot. at Gin
cinnati, IS cut off. Great damage hal
beeE done to property along the Big
Sandy, Little Miami and Licking riv
ers. The head waters of the principa'
tributaries were subsiding, but, as rain
and sleet are falling at st. Louis, Lou
isville and Evansville, a further flood
was feared. The Cumberland river, al
Nashville, was also rising and had
reached a height of al feet. Timely
warnings issued by the Signal Service
prevented danger TO life or loss of por.
table property.
"A sc~hool-house at 81. Monique,
Quebec, was burned on the Sd, and fouI
girls, aged from ten to twelve years,
who slept in the building, lost their
lives. The warehouse of the Drum.
mond Tobacco Company in st. Louis,
was burned on the Sd. Loss, $3.50 600;
covered by insurance. A block of
seven business buildings in Hurley,
Wisconsin, was burned on the morning
of the 4th. Loss, $50, 900; insurance,
500, 900. The Pacific OIL Company's
building in st. Louis was burned on
the 4th. Loss, S45, 600; insured about
three-fourths.
Two children of John Graper have
died near Massillon, Ohio, of trichino-
sis, and three others of his family are
dangerously sick.
james Colligan, aged go years, and
his t~wo-year-old great-granddaughter,
were burned in Rockford. Illinois, on
the 4th. by the upsetting of a coal oil
lamp. The child Is dead. The old man
may recover BY a fire in the house of
John Zimmerman in Chicago, on the
4tb, two children-Eva, aged 4 years,
and Emma, aged 6-were smothered to
death by the smoke.
"A, telegram from Terre Haute,
Indiana, reports that or the afternoon
of the LIST, during a tremendous bail
storm" at Oliver, a small town fifteen
miles west of that city, ian aerolite
descended and exploded neal the
ground. The earth was torn, windows
shattered, and a large tree demolished.
The explosion was heard SIX miles
away"
The latest reports of the railroad
| bOrrz- ,A0r yTksEa D;vor T,-ak,a4 I'VE
show that thirty-two bodies have been
recovered, that one of the injured died
on the 9Th, that thirty-1ve injured are
in care of physicians. and that only four
passengers are u~naccOunted for.
eugene d. kelners, secretary Of a
building and loan association in Chi
cago, is in jail charged with embezzling
$500 from the association. 1t is al
legged that when a member Of the asso-
citation would pay his dues, in the alb
sence of a director, the secretary would
give credit on the members book, but
fail to enter it On the corporations
book or tally sheets.
John Ingham, who shot his wife,
in Boston, Pa, a few days ago, because
she had sued him for support. commit
ted suicide in jail, on the 9th, by means
of q spike, which he had somehow Sc
cured.
Captain Henry Hoehn aud Detec-
tive Halligan, who were assaulted on a
railroad train IN Ohio, by escue of a
burglar, are now believed to have a
chance of recovery. They are in a hos
pital IN Cleveland.
R. & II. Adams; Harmony Mill.
in Paterson, New Jersey, was burned
on the morning of the 9Th. The mill
was used for the manufacture of mos
quito netting. The loss is estimated
at $100, 600; covered by insurance.
The main building and the blacksmith
shop of the Stiles & Parker Company,
at Mlddletown, Connecticut, We're
burned on the evening of the 4th. Loss,
LOO 5000; insurance, $4,000.
The flood in the Monongahela
river subsidized on the 5th, and all
danger was believed to be at an end.
The food in the OHIO and Cumberland
rivers continued, with much Interrupt
ton to the movement of railroad
freight and suffering and danger to the
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cinnati, Newport and elsewhere.
About 1000 men are idle on account of
the high water.
Earthquake shocks were felt on
The morning of the 9th, between 4 and
s O'Clock, at Springfield, Vandalia,
C~entralia, Hilsboro', Litchleld, and
other places in Illinois, and at Terre
Haute and Evansville, Indiana. AT
Terre Haute the shocks-two in num-
ber-were more severe than those of
last fall. The direction was seemingly
from southeast to northwest, the vlbra-
ton being accompanied by heavy
Iumbling sounds (which awakened the
soundest sleepers. Houses were shaken
sufficiently to cause rafting of window
panes and swaying of chandeliers. At
Springfield the number of shocks is
~yariously reported at from three to
five, the time between the first and last
being from fifteen to twenty seconds.
Five inches of o fell at San
Francisco on the 9Th following a rain
storm.
There was another dynamite ex-
ploslon on the Geary street cable road
in San Francisco on the 9th. The
whole side of a dummy was blown out
at n of the street There
were no passengers on board, a party of
ladies and gentlemen having left the
vehicle a minute before. The train
men and a policeman who were on the
dummy escaped injury, although the
conclusion was felt for a distance of a
mile,
Simon Porter, a farmer, shot and
fatally wounded his Hfte~en-year-old
daughter, neal Point Pleasant, West